Death in the Garden
Original title: La Mort en ce jardin
“Torrid!… Tantalizing!… Tempestuous!…”
1956 · 1 h 44 min
Luis BuñuelCast
Simone Signoret 
Georges Marchal 
Charles Vanel 
Michel Piccoli 
Tito Junco Raúl Ramírez
Credits
Written by: 
Luis Alcoriza
Plot
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond miners fleeing the army flee into the jungle with a priest and a prostitute.
Sinekatalog’s take
Luis Buñuel's adventure, with Simone Signoret and Charles Vanel, is tense, ironic and rough.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.7 / 10 (2,887 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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